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The following Republicans voted Tuesday to raise the government's borrowing limit: John Boehner, R-Ohio. Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy,R-Calif. Chief Deputy Whip Pete Roskam, R-Ill. Ken Calvert, R-Calif. Dave Camp, R-Mich. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y. Richard Hanna, R-N.Y. Doc Hastings, R-Wash. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. Hal Rogers, R-Ky. Dave Reichert, R-Wash. Chris Collins, R-N.Y. Howard Coble, R-N.C. Charlie Dent, R-Pa. Mike Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. Pete King, R-N.Y. Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J. Buck McKeon, R-Calif. Patrick Meehan, R-Pa. Gary Miller, R-Calif. Ed Royce, R-Calif. John Runyan, R-N.J. John Shimkus, R-Ill. Chris Smith, R-N.J. David Valadao, R-Calif. Frank Wolf,...

That's what some defeated House candidates from 2012 are hoping, at least. Several failed candidates who ran strong campaigns, but fell just short last year, are back for a rematch this election cycle. Whether they can use lessons learned in their losing campaign to change next year's results will go a long way in determining which party gains seats in the House.

For several years, Mexico has been solving their own unemployment problem by sending their jobless citizens to the United States. The result has been a low, steady rate of unemployment in Mexico since 2000. Of course, the unimpeded flow of cheap labor headed north, has had a disastrous effect on U.S. workers. Consider the following facts: -Between 1991-1999, Mexico had an average unemployment rate of 3.7 percent. Now, as economies around the world are falling apart and experiencing record joblessness, Mexico still has a relatively low unemployment rate of 5.5 percent (July 2010). -While the U.S. currently has an anemic...

The illegal immigration issue now boiling up as an overarching president and a Democrat Congress tackle the prospect of giving amnesty to 20 million illegal immigrants is merely a thinly veiled attempt register new Democrats for the 2010 and especially 2012 elections. Granting illegals amnesty is thought to be the way the liberal left will assure their ascendancy to an American socialist dictatorship. Anchor baby chain One correction ignored for decades is ending the anchor baby chain migration by which pregnant women come to America to deliver babies who automatically receive America citizenship. This then allows these babies to be...

One of Congress' strongest supporters of the Foothill tollway's controversial southern extension steered taxpayer money to and lobbied for the project while holding a financial interest in a connected tollway. Financial disclosures for Rep. Gary Miller, a land developer who represents Orange, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties, show he purchased $20,000 in Foothill/Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency bonds in 2000. The bonds pay investors a fixed rate and are repaid by drivers' tolls. The Eastern and Foothill (241) toll roads run from the 91 freeway to Irvine and Rancho Santa Margarita. The proposed southern extension, known as Foothill South, is...

DIAMOND BAR, California (AP) -- Authorities were investigating the disappearance Monday of three grandchildren of Southern California Rep. Gary Miller. The children were reported missing at about 1:30 p.m Monday from their Diamond Bar residence east of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said. Investigators were looking into whether the children were taken by their "non-custodial mother," said sheriff's spokeswoman Deputy Aura Sierra, referring to a parent without custody rights. The children's parents are divorced and appeared to be in a custody battle, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported on it Web site. -snip-

Besides Doolittle, California Republicans with ethics problems are: _Rep. Jerry Lewis (news, bio, voting record), now in his 15th term and chairman of the Appropriations Committee last year when federal prosecutors in Los Angeles began investigating his ties to a lobbyist with clients in his district. _Rep. Gary Miller (news, bio, voting record), in his fifth term, who's drawn scrutiny over a tax deferral strategy he used in a profitable real estate sale to a Southern California town outside his district. _Rep. Ken Calvert (news, bio, voting record), in his eighth term, who denies any conflict over pushing federal funding...

The Palm Reading Newspaper Journalism about Republican Congressman Gary Miller The Pasadena Pundit - Feb. 28, 2007 Why Does Local Newspaper Skip Over Adam Schiff's Pork Barrel Funding Potentially Benefiting His Contributors? The Pasadena Star News has been running a series of so-called news stories about U.S. Republic Congressman Gary Miller's funding of road improvements in his 42nd Congressional District which purportedly benefited his campaign contributors. http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/search/ci_5231078 Despite Congressman Miller's refutation of any wrong doing, the newspaper states that it stands by its prior story. To indicate how selective (biased) this is let's compare Pasadena Congressman Adam Schiff's campaign contributors...

With community activists packed into the Monrovia Community Center one winter night in 2000, U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) implored City Council members to purchase 165 acres he owned in the foothills and turn the land into a wilderness preserve. Earlier that day, according to interviews with former Miller staff members and official correspondence reviewed by The Times, Miller asked one staffer to find a way to place one of the councilmen — a pawnshop owner with no parks experience — on the prestigious National Park System Advisory Board. The aide said he was told to "make it a...

WASHINGTON A government watchdog group asked federal regulators Thursday to determine if Rep. Gary Miller failed to pay taxes on several real estate transactions. A spokesman for Miller, R-Diamond Bar, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. The Los Angeles Times reported this month that Miller avoided paying millions of dollars in taxes on real estate deals under a tax break that protects people forced to sell their property. But local officials said they never made him sell his land, the newspaper said. In a complaint, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington asked the Internal Revenue Service to...

Another L.A. Times Unfounded Slur on a Republican Politician L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller13aug13,0,2223572.story?coll=la-home-headlines Official's Tax Break: on Firm Ground? Rep. Miller has avoided paying millions on real estate profits. He says the sales were forced; cities' officials dispute that. By William Heisel, Times Staff Writer August 13, 2006 When U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) sold 165 acres to the city of Monrovia in 2002, he made a profit of more than $10 million, according to a financial disclosure form he filed in Congress. Ordinarily, he would have had to pay state and federal taxes of up to 31% on that...

LOS ANGELES U.S. Rep. Gary Miller has avoided paying millions of dollars in taxes on real estate deals under a tax break that protects people forced to sell their property, but officials dispute they ever made him sell his land, a newspaper reported Sunday. Miller, R-Diamond Bar, sold 165 acres to Monrovia, a suburb about 10 miles east of Los Angeles, in 2002 for a profit of more than $10 million, according to the Los Angeles Times. Following the sale, he told the Internal Revenue Service and the state he was forced to sell under threat by the city of...

When U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) sold 165 acres to the city of Monrovia in 2002, he made a profit of more than $10 million, according to a financial disclosure form he filed in Congress. Ordinarily, he would have had to pay state and federal taxes of up to 31% on that profit. Instead, Miller told the Internal Revenue Service and the state that Monrovia had forced him to sell the property under threat of eminent domain. That allowed him to shelter the profits from capital gains taxes for more than two years before he had to reinvest the...

It just occurred to me that I should probably share with my fellow Freepers that Congressman Gary Miller (R - 42nd Congressional District) spoke at my company's staff meeting this morning. Congressman Miller is an extremely funny man and he came to announce the passage of a new bill that makes it OK for Credit Unions to lend past their legal lending limit when lending to a religious institution. Anyway, he shared some of his insights on endangered species that had me holding my sides. "The gnat-catcher isn't an endangered species... he's just lost. Go down to Central America and...